title: How intraoperative navigation is changing musculoskeletal tumor surgery.
abstract: Computer-assisted orthopedic surgery (CAOS) was introduced, developed, and implemented in musculoskeletal tumor surgery recently to enhance surgical precision in resecting malignant and benign tumors. The origins of computer-assisted surgery were in other subspecialties including maxillofacial surgery, spine surgery, and arthroplasty. Early studies have shown that CAOS can also be used safely for bone tumor resection surgery. Additional technological improvements may allow use of CAOS in soft tissue tumor surgery. It has the potential to improve surgical precision and accuracy, but more study is needed to evaluate clinical efficacy and long term results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1400 Pressler Street, Unit 1448, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: rlsatcher@mdanderson.org.
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Satcher
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted
keywords: Cancer; Computer; Musculoskeletal; Navigation; Sarcoma; Surgery; Tumor